He frequents this site.

Knows a bit about Subaru's

Looks like Francis Drake (well he does in that photograph).

Is older than Gods dog.

Used to be (he would probably suggest he still is) a bit of a "driver".

 

David @ API perchance?

 

Now that's a proper car [ and a proper driver ! ] Eat your heart out O. Clark.......

 

What do I win?!

 

nice tash

 

The underpants the co-driver was wearing that evening!

 

Now I know you've been around since Pontius was a Pilate, but......


How old is that photograph as you're not wearing helmets, unless you're driving between stages.

Shouldn't the photograph be in B&W.

 

That's Iron Man Tony Stark

 

Pontius the pilot

Yeah! l beat him too

That's a PROPER Motoring News Road Rally, back the days when ex works rally cars could be used. All night, maybe 1 or 2 stops for petrol and a regroup then on it until about 5 am usually.

No wimpy helmets, I just wore fireproof underwear with day clothes over the top.

I came 4th on that one if I recall - Flat out all night. Beaten by three of the M N Championship contenders, it just happened to coincide with the two Championships I was in.

Old time Racing driver

 

You could only get 'slow speed ' film in Black and white I was too fast for that .....They had to use colour film and sometimes even so, I was just a blur.

The bumper sticker on my Legacy says

" the older I get the faster I was "

 

[QUOTE=APIDavid;11030443]Pontius the pilot

Yeah! l beat him too

That's a PROPER Motoring News Road Rally, back the days when ex works rally cars could be used. All night, maybe 1 or 2 stops for petrol and a regroup then on it until about 5 am usually.

No wimpy helmets, I just wore fireproof underwear with day clothes over the top.

I came 4th on that one if I recall - Flat out all night. Beaten by three of the M N Championship contenders, it just happened to coincide with the two Championships I was in.

Old time Racing driver[/QUOTE

Brings back old memories that photo and that era nothing better than going to the pub on a saturday night then standing half cut after throw out time 2 in the morning on the RL Brown watching the likes of Bannister,Ingram etc ears escorts and ice sunbeams giving it death down the lanes/roads now that was entertainment

 

I caught Bannister one night on a rally in East Anglia He was running 1 minute ahead of us on the road and we could see his lights at a control. I doubled my efforts to catch him and slid into the control all four wheels locked at the last minute.

His bonnet was up. In front of his car was a Blue 3 litre Capri - road car.

From behind his bonnet stepped the biggest Norfolk Constabulary copper you've ever seen.

I tried to explain that I had been making so much noise as I was stuck in 3rd gear and he was having none of it.

He proceeded with red face and loud voice to 'advise ' me that if he saw me anywhere again all night doing more than the speed limit, I was going back to his nick with him in the Capri.

We went home...............

 

Good old days David I remember Bannister putting his escort on top of a dyke 20 yards in front of a time control as he was trying to with spectators get the car back onto the road his navigator was screaming at him telling him !!!!!!!!! I told you to brake he hadn't taken any notice at all

 

Any other RR folk on here then? Slightly gutted I missed out on the MN days, get yourself a copy of Mick Briant's book David!

 

I built Mick Briants transmissions dealing through a guy called Roland Shepherd who lived at the remarkably named Lillingstone Dayrell over by Bletchley. My car was loosely based on the spec that Mick used to win the MN championship.

Briants of Risboro are still there as far as i know doing Mowers and stuff. haven't heard of Mick in years though.

David

 

Do they still run the Cilwendeg over your way then ?

 

He was VERY fast, but I seem to recall that he didn't finish that often, there'd just be a hole in a hedge or a wall somewhere on the route.......

Seems the aforementioned copper was so pissed off at me, cos he'd tried to catch Steve with their fastest car [ the 3.0 Capri ] and he left them for dead. When they actually caught up with him he was parked in the control and no evidence to use, as they'd never got that close.

Then I came along and they missed me too...

 

They sure do, bit of an escort fest these days though *yawn*... Lol, I last did it in 2009, still a very tough event on the car and navigator.

Have a look at Mick's book, it's a part 1 of 2 all about the MN days -

http://www.mickbriant.com/

And any more photo's of you in the lanes David?

 

Now you've done it. l'll have a look in the old scrapbook tonight and see if there is anything appropriate.

D

 

Is it Tom Selleck (Magnam PI) lol